Depletion has no signature feeling, but it seems to be like turning up the volume on your life as a whole.
This is possibly the most fascinating thing so far. I wonder what all the implications of this could be, and what this discovery could help explain about people's actions.
Replenishing glucose, even just with a glass of lemonade, improves self-control performance.
It is kind of early in the morning, I woke up 3 hours ago, and I haven't had anything to eat or drink yet today, I just got straight to work. It is interesting that I have completed 1 assignment already, but have been distracted on and off with YouTube. It's as if I spent a large portion of the self-control I had completing that, and it took a little while of being distracted for me to come to myself and realize what I was supposed to be doing. I'm going to stop and take a break to go eat, and maybe start eating before working from now on.
Freud had spoken about the self as being partly composed of energy and of processes involving energy.
Interestingly enough, that's almost exactly what I suggested in my previous annotation before reading this.
Many studies have found that people perform relatively poorly on tests of self-control when they have engaged in a previous, seemingly unrelated act of self-control.
This is a fascinating study, I would've liked a link to it, but he gives the gist of it and it seems like enough for me to work with. It is interesting that the unrelated activities are in fact correlated. It also may have been important to note in here what the people were told about the puzzle, as reward can heavily influence how much desire people have, which absolutely impacts self-control. For example, if they were just going to solve a puzzle for the sake of solving a puzzle, they may give up more easily because there's no incentive. Just something to be skeptical about since I may want to pull this information in my presentation.
self-control can be strengthened
This is a hugely important detail because I want to have greater self control due to my research here, and thus far the only answer I have found is basically do things that require self control in order to develop stronger self control. I'm now paying attention to what he gives to further this statement.
Kirsten Weir
I looked him up to check his authority and found this statement from him, "I have degrees in biology and journalism, and have been writing about health, science, psychology, and conservation for more than two decades." On top of that, APA seems to be a well developed website, thus I have concluded this will be a viable resource.